Chapter 412

"Your Excellency Liu Feng, I am here to study this time." Xilan immediately stood up and said respectfully, "I hope to get your advice."

"Study?" Liu Feng was stunned, what kind of operation is this?

"Yes, the Xiyang City managed by His Excellency Liu Feng can be called a miracle. In just a few months, Xiyang City has become a prosperous city. These are all things I should learn." Xilan said seriously.

She will definitely continue to be the city lord of Heishui City in the future. With her innocence and her relationship with women, it must be difficult to manage Heishui City. This gave her the idea of ​​coming to Xiyang City to study.

Unexpectedly, when she told her father, she got generous support and said that she would prepare luggage for her. Why does she feel that her father is a little impatient.

"Learning..." Liu Feng raised his eyebrows. He didn't expect this. This kind of thinking is very enlightened in this era, and he actually asked other city lords to learn how to be a city lord.

In his layout plan, Blackwater City must be one of the strategic cities, a transit point connecting the Sahara prairie, since there are people who come to learn, he is willing to teach, after all, it can save him a lot of energy.

"Can't you?" Xilan's smiling face gradually disappeared, and she lowered her head a little disappointed. Liu Feng's silence, in Xilan's view, was embarrassing to refuse her.

"No, you want to learn, I have no objection." Liu Feng shook his head and smiled lightly, "But some confidential things may not teach you."

"Ah?" Xilan was stunned for a moment, then a happy smile appeared on his face, and he said quickly, "Just ordinary teaching is fine."

"Then, how do you deal with Nicole's internal affairs first." Liu Feng said with a light smile.

"Yes." Sheeran shouted respectfully.

"Miss Sheeran, hello, we meet again." Nicole greeted softly.

"Hello, Miss Nicole, I will trouble you in the future." Sheeran said quickly.

"Miss Sheeran, you are too polite." Nicole saw that Sheeran was a little nervous, and comforted her, "Just treat this as your own home."

"Okay, okay." Sheeran breathed a sigh of relief. After all, she came to an unfamiliar environment, so it's no wonder she wasn't nervous.

"Kagji!"

The study was pushed away, and Mina walked in quickly with Niu Si, holding a wooden box, and put the wooden box in front of Liu Feng.

"This is?" Liu Feng stared in astonishment at the panting Maoerniang and Niu Si who was panting heavily. Did the two come back from a gallop?

"Master, the book has been printed." Mina said seriously. When she sent the letter to the logistics department, she happened to meet Niu Si bringing a box to the castle, so she brought Niu Si directly to the study.

"Oh?" Liu Feng raised his eyebrows, and hastily opened the wooden box, which contained two thin books.

He reached out and took out the book, and flipped through the ten pages in total. He carefully looked at the contents of the pages, and they were all some commonly used words in this era. The content of this book is basically a literacy enlightenment book, and there are some carved patterns on the side.

"Very good, what's the cost price?" Liu Feng put down the enlightenment books. He was most concerned about the cost. He didn't print a lot of books before because the cost was too high.

"Young master, the cost is five copper coins per copy." Niu Si said quickly, he was in charge of the printing of the books.

"Very good." Liu Feng was very satisfied, the price is considered very cheap, and then asked, "Have you found the new ink formula?"

"Yes." Niu Si nodded respectfully, and said in a low voice, "People from the Institute of Movable Type Printing soaked a plant in water and found that the water would become much thicker, and then used a certain proportion of ink, and... Made into the current ink."

"Will it fade?" Liu Feng lamented in his heart that the plants here are so amazing that they have the ability to make water thicker.

"No, it has already been tested." Niu Si said affirmatively, he also knows the temper of the young master now, that is something that has been researched, and there must be no major shortcomings.

"Very good." Liu Feng nodded in satisfaction, turned to An Li and said, "An Li, immediately choose a store in the commercial street as a public library."

"Library?" En Li was stunned, this word was the first time she obeyed.

"It's a place to store books. Common people can borrow books from the library with their ID cards, but they have to pay a deposit..." Liu Feng explained the library's procedures.

He does not sell books as goods for the time being, otherwise those merchants will take them to other cities to sell them, thereby earning a lot of money.

Of course, it is no problem to sell to the people of Xiyang City. The library can sell books, but only with an ID card, and each person can only buy one book of the same type.

As for the sale of books in other places, at least his influence must be able to spread to the entire west, and he must sell the books, and the money must be in his own pocket.

The real profit is the newspaper, which is also one of the trump cards to control rumors. Now that the cost of ink is cheap, printing newspapers should also be put on the agenda.

"So that's how it is." Enli suddenly realized that this library is really good.

"I'll leave this matter to you." Liu Feng said gently.

"Okay." An Li said seriously.

Chapter 0494 Xiyang City newspaper planning.

With the opening of the library, Liu Feng didn't expect that many people would borrow books to read. He prepared it for those who couldn't read books but wanted to read.

"Master, do you want to give this book a name?" An Li flipped through the book of enlightenment and literacy.

"Let's call it the Hundred-Character Book of Enlightenment." Liu Feng said with a light smile. This ten-page book has more than one hundred characters. It's a good name. After all, the module of movable type printing is quite large.

"What about this one?" Enri picked up the second book of the same type.

"Then it's called Enlightenment Hundred-Character Book Two." Liu Feng's mouth turned up. He had also read this book, and the characters in it would be a little more difficult, that is, there would be more strokes.

"Eh?" Enli's brown eyes slightly opened, is that okay? Hastily said, "Young master, is there another one called three volumes?"

"Yes, for books of the same type, let's name them like this." Liu Feng nodded.

"Master, is this the only book in the library?" An Li held the 'Enlightenment Hundred-Character Book'.

"Of course not." Liu Feng rolled his eyes, he was already ready.

He opened the drawer and took out a large stack of papers. These were the storybooks he translated from the other side of the earth, and some principles of life.

"Take these to the Institute of Movable Type Printing and let them print them all." Liu Feng handed a large stack of paper to Hu Erniang.

"Yes." An Li quickly took it, and she flipped through it, and found that the characters were very small, twice as small as the printed ones.

She estimated that more than a dozen books could be printed out of this stack of paper, which is simply a fatal temptation for people who like books, such as Wei Ya.

Liu Feng doesn't care about the library. The library is only making money, and the newspaper is what he cares about. Now the literacy rate in Xiyang City has reached an astonishing 50%, which does not exist in other cities.

Newspapers, who should be in charge? Liu Feng mainly thought about this problem. He must be the main person in charge at the beginning, but he must be trained to take over later.

There is one candidate in his mind, and that is the rabbit-eared lady. Wei Ya is the best candidate, but it is a pity that the other party has been arranged by him in the education system.

"Mina, who else in Xiyang City can read? The one who can read a lot." Liu Feng turned his head and asked.

People in the newspaper industry must be literate and able to write articles. After all, it is just the beginning, and only one or two people are needed to write articles. For other gossip, he will ask the security department to provide it.

But it will definitely not work in the future, so the profession of reporter will appear sooner or later, especially after the development of Xiyang City, if there is no division of labor between reporters and editors, then the person in charge of the newspaper industry will be exhausted.

"This..." Mina frowned and thought about it, then shook her head and said, "Young master, we will only find out after investigating."

"Immediately send someone to investigate." Liu Feng ordered, the newspaper must be produced, and with the newspaper, many things can be done.